Will This Be the 2008 Campaign Cry?

Despite the fact that research on Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases is still ongoing, Democrat Presidential Candidate John Edwards is calling for caps on "greenhouse gas emissions." Read the article here.

If I sound like a skeptic on global warming, it is because I am. When I was in High School (mid 70s) the "cause de jour" was the coming ice age. We were told that a new ice age was coming and there was nothing that could be done to stop it. Then the shift started to global warming, only this time we are told that by massive restrictions on "greenhouse gas emissions" we can delay and/or stop it. Unless you follow the theory that says global warming is inevitable and will melt the polar ice caps and cause a massive increase in cloud cover (due to more moisture in the air), which will reflect the Sun's energy away from Earth and cause a new ice age.

Despite the claims of many, global warming is still a theory. But I feel it will become a focal point of the 2008 Presidential Campaign, a race that may be run on conflicting theorys of psuedo-science and used to deflect attention from real problems and possible solutions.

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